How to Count word in a PDF File?

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Method 1: Using Online Tools

1. Visit a reliable online word counting tool like pdfwordcounter.io.
   
2. Upload your PDF file.
   
3. Wait for the tool to process the file and display the word count.
   
4. Download or note down the results if needed.
   

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Method 2: Using Adobe Acrobat (Pro)

1. Open the PDF file in Adobe Acrobat Pro.
   
2. Select Edit > Select All or manually highlight the text you want to analyze.
   
3. Copy the text (Ctrl+C or Cmd+C).
   
4. Paste the text into a word processor (e.g., Microsoft Word or Google Docs).
   
5. Use the word count feature in the word processor to count the words.
   

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Method 3: Using Microsoft Word

1. Open Microsoft Word.
   
2. Drag and drop the PDF file into Word, or use File > Open to import the PDF.
   
3. Word will convert the PDF into an editable format.
   
4. Click Review > Word Count to see the word count.
   

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Method 4: Using Google Docs

1. Open Google Drive and upload your PDF file.
   
2. Right-click the PDF, and select Open with > Google Docs.
   
3. Once the file is in Google Docs, click Tools > Word Count to view the results.
   

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Method 5: Using Programming
For advanced users, programming languages like Python can help extract text and count words:
Using Python:

1. Install
   PyPDF2
2. or
   pdfplumber
3. for text extraction.
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   pip install PyPDF2 pdfplumber
4. Write a script to extract text and count words:
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   import pdfplumberwith pdfplumber.open("yourfile.pdf") as pdf:    text = ""    for page in pdf.pages:        text += page.extract_text()word_count = len(text.split())print(f"Word Count: {word_count}")

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Tips

• Some PDFs are scanned images. In this case, you'll need an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool like Google Drive OCR, Adobe Acrobat OCR, or software like Tesseract to extract text before counting words.
  
• Check for free or paid desktop applications that specialize in PDF word counting for convenience.
  

These methods make it easy to count words in a PDF, whether for a single file or batch processing.